From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7946"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bobnewell@bobnewell.net, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 09 05:35:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kQjCB-0001xU-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 05:35:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53014 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQjCA-0003Yo-7r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9Q-0001Sw-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9P-0005VE-VT; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kQj9N-0004Gf-Tr; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:32:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:22:01 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257247 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > kill-line would have a link to (info "(emacs)Killing") > kill-buffer would have two links, one to (info "(emacs)Buffers") and another to (info "(elisp)Buffers") > call-process would have a link to (info "(elisp)Processes") > I think a link to the relevant chapter, as in the examples above, is > better than a link to the relevant section or subsection. With this, > users who follow that link would find more information about the general > context of the command or function, and not just a similar documentation. They are ideas worthy of consideration. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)